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Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have created the first-ever comprehensive genetic map of the human brain, allowing scientists to gain a better understanding of how Alzheimer's disease and other brain conditions develop. The 3D, interactive brain atlas includes more than 100 million data points and documents the positioning and function of thousands of genes. The atlas is available to scientists for free at www.brain-map.org.

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Scientists have merged together the Allen Institute's Allen Human Brain Atlas gene expression maps with MRI images of living peoples' brains and have made their methods available to other scientists. The University of Cambridge team that merged the maps had to create a software package that can map any kind of MRI data to the Allen Institute’s map, and they made that software available free online.

Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have created the first-ever comprehensive genetic map of the human brain, allowing scientists to gain a better understanding of how Alzheimer's disease and other brain conditions develop. The 3D, interactive brain atlas includes more than 100 million data points and documents the positioning and function of thousands of genes. The atlas is available to scientists for free at www.brain-map.org.

The bill funding the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year, ending in September, reduces the NIH budget by 0.8%. The $260 million cut will be spread across institutions and includes a $50 million cut for buildings and facilities. The bill restores $300 million for the NIH Global Fund, which a House version of the bill had eliminated. The CDC budget was cut by $730 million.

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies reported in the journal Nature that they were able to turn skin cells taken from patients with schizophrenia into induced pluripotent stem cells, which were developed into neurons, allowing them to compare neuronal connections between healthy and diseased nerve cells. They think the iPS cells could be used as models that would allow experts to further study the psychiatric illness and test the efficacy of drug candidates for the disease.

Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have created the first-ever comprehensive genetic map of the human brain. The three-dimensional, interactive brain atlas includes more than 100 million data points and documents the positioning and function of thousands of genes.